IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

William Thomas Cottee, of Waimate,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, to carry out his duties generally throughout New Zealand.

P. FRASER, Minister of Marine.

Controlling Local Authorities appointed under Section 63 of the Licensing Act, 1908.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 11th February, 1936.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section 63 of the Licensing Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand has been pleased to appoint the local authorities named in the Schedule hereunder to be controlling local authorities under the said Act, to have authority for the purposes of the said Act throughout the licensing districts respectively named in the said Schedule opposite the name of each such local authority respectively, and to make all necessary appointments and to do all things required for the conduct of elections of Licensing Committees, and for the general administration of the said Act within such licensing districts respectively.

SCHEDULE.

Licensing District.
Auckland ..
Avon ..
Awarua ..
Bay of Islands
Bay of Plenty
Buller ..
Central Otago
Chalmers ..
Christchurch
Dunedin ..
Dunedin South
Egmont ..
Franklin ..
Gisborne ..
Hamilton ..
Hauraki ..
Hawke's Bay
Hurunui ..
Hutt ..
Kaiapoi ..
Kaipara ..
Lyttelton ..
Manawatu ..
Manukau ..
Marsden ..
Mid-Canterbury
Motueka ..
Napier ..
Nelson ..
New Plymouth
Oroua ..
Otaki ..
Pahiatua ..
Palmerston ..
Parnell ..
Patea ..
Raglan ..
Rangitikei ..
Riccarton ..
Rotorua ..
Stratford ..
Tauranga ..
Temuka ..
Thames ..
Timaru ..
Waikato ..
Waimarino ..
Waipawa ..
Wairarapa ..
Wairau ..
Waitaki ..
Waitemata ..
Waitomo ..
Wallace ..
Wanganui ..
Wellington ..
Westland ..

Local Authority.
Auckland City Council.
New Brighton Borough Council.
Southland County Council.
Bay of Islands County Council.
Opotiki Borough Council.
Westport Borough Council.
Lake County Council.
Port Chalmers Borough Council.
Christchurch City Council.
Dunedin City Council.
Dunedin City Council.
Eltham Borough Council.
Pukekohe Borough Council.
Gisborne Borough Council.
Hamilton Borough Council.
Otahuhu Borough Council.
Hawke's Bay County Council.
Kowai County Council.
Petone Borough Council.
Kaiapoi Borough Council.
Hobson County Council.
Lyttelton Borough Council.
Foxton Borough Council.
Onehunga Borough Council.
Whangarei Borough Council.
Ellesmere County Council.
Inangahua County Council.
Napier Borough Council.
Nelson City Council.
New Plymouth Borough Council.
Feilding Borough Council.
Otaki Borough Council.
Pahiatua County Council.
Palmerston North Borough Council.
Auckland City Council.
Hawera Borough Council.
Raglan County Council.
Marton Borough Council.
Paparua County Council.
Rotorua County Council.
Stratford County Council.
Tauranga County Council.
Temuka Borough Council.
Thames Borough Council.
Timaru Borough Council.
Morrinsville Borough Council.
Waimarino County Council.
Waipawa County Council.
Wairarapa South County Council.
Blenheim Borough Council.
Waimate County Council.
Devonport Borough Council.
Te Awamutu Borough Council.
Wallace County Council.
Wanganui City Council.
Wellington City Council.
Hokitika Borough Council.

F. JONES,
For Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace Resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1936.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by
Alfred Rosenberg, Esquire,
of Hastings, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1936.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by
Alfred Rosenberg, Esquire,
of Hastings, of his appointment as a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hawke's Bay.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1936.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :- Name. George Lawson Gill Albert Errol Crimp District. Black's. Riverton.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 6th February, 1936.

THE Acting Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Albert Errol Crimp,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Riverton, as from the 17th day of February, 1936.

Albert John Bennetts,

to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Avon for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 15th day of February, 1936.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th February, 1936.

THE following notice, received from the Gore Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF GORE.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to Raise a Loan for Footpaths (£6,000).

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Gore, taken on the 23rd day of January, 1936, on the proposal of the Gore Borough Council to borrow the sum of six thousand pounds (£6,000) for kerbing and channelling and constructing concrete footpaths-

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was ... 243 The number of votes recorded against the proposal was.. 166 Informal .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 18

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 24th day of January, 1936.

ALEX. T. NEWMAN, Mayor.